Roger André wrote:
Hi All,
I'm curious if you could give me an idea of the level of effort this
would take. I have access to a data service at work that will render an
array of values in response to a bbox geographic query. I'd like the
ability to create a Mapserver raster Layer that uses this service as a
data source, so that I can populate a web map using dynamically
generated data, rather than pre-rendering a raster set. How hard would
it be to write a new "connector" that could read this data service?
Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me,
Roger,
It should be reasonable easy to add this as a new GDAL format driver,
or alternatively as an extension of the existing "WMS" driver which
has a "minidriver" mechanism to add new web service types beyond
WMS.
Some helpful resources:
* The driver implementation tutorial:
http://www.gdal.org/gdal_drivertut.html
* The WMS driver code (see mini drivers for examples of new protocols):
http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal/frmts/wms/
Best regards,
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